Month: June 2009

200+ killed by troops in Zimbabwean mine Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe’s armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search for the gems and beating villagers who get in the way. See AP / Rights group: Abuse in Zimbabwe diamond fields…

“As I became aware of the mounting global water crisis, I realized that it represented a clash of cultures – between a culture that values water as a shared sacred source of all life and a corporate culture that regards water as a commodity to be bought and sold.” Quote Shalini Kantayya, director of A…

Two links for this blogs 20th post tagged ‘water’. Depraved Injustice and the Privatization of the Global Freshwater Commons by Frank Joseph Smecker is a critical look at the increasing privatization of the worlds freshwater resources. Privatization is the preferred solution from those who brought us into this situation of scarcity and escalating conflict: traditional…

The world spends12 times more on military expendituresthan on aid to developing countries Quote Home, the new environmental film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand which I just watched. The film is available for free on YouTube for some time and I’d generally recommend it. Rather than detailing one or a couple of issues or projects this is…

Sometimes researchers are blamed of being alarmists stirring up fears of a fictional dystopia by the business-as-usual crowd. But it seems a forewarning of conflict over oil in Peru is proceeding according to exactly such a warning. The news first… 40+ dead at protest In extension of free trade agreements the Peruvian government has plans…